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Roob’s Observations after an excruciating Eagles loss to end season – NBCSP
Nineteen points. Why should we have expected any more than that? Why should we have expected an offense that hasn’t scored more than 19 points against a winning team since Week 3 against the Rams to suddenly become functional? Once again, the offense just was not good enough, and when you have this kind of talent across the board and you underachieve week after week you have to look at the offensive coaches. Not just Kevin Patullo but all of them starting with Nick Sirianni. The Eagles had so many opportunities in the second half – drives that began at their own 48, the 49ers’ 46, then their own 35, 38 and 35 – and managed just two field goals? That’s inexcusable. What is this offense? What are they trying to do? They like talking about identity, but hey don’t have an identity. Except hoping the defense bails them out after another terrible performance. I don’t know how you have this kind of talent on offense and you can be this consistently unproductive and just boring. And unless there are major changes this offseason, starting with the play caller, there’s no reason to believe it’s going to change.
Bowen: Thank God that’s over, now the Eagles need to fix this – PHLY
Looking to this offseason, I have two main points, which are probably the same as your main points – we all watched the same crap. The first is offensive scheme and playcalling, big surprise. There is just no way forward with this unimaginative, dreary, poorly sequenced attack. The problem isn’t just Kevin Patullo, a lot of it is what Nick Sirianni is comfortable with and what Jalen Hurts is comfortable with. Going forward, I’m fine with them both being uncomfortable. Bring in a fresh offensive mind and give that person total control. I don’t care about Sirianni’s feelings, and I don’t care how many offensive coordinators in how many years Hurts has had. It would be absurd to fire Sirianni a year after a dominating Super Bowl victory, but if he wants to quit rather than give up say over the offense, I’d be fine with that. Someone asked me this after Sunday’s game: “If the Eagles fired Nick Sirianni, who hires him as their head coach?” Quite possibly nobody, which is kind of amazing and probably worthy of another column at some point.
10 reasons the 2025 Eagles were a massive disappointment – BGN
8) Nick Sirianni’s Conservatism. The Eagles are not going to fire Nick Sirianni this off-season, although if former Ravens head coach John Harbaugh is interested in a return to Philly, I’d seriously consider it. That being said, Sirianni won a Super Bowl last season, has made the playoffs in all five seasons and has overseen the greatest stretch of Eagles football in franchise history. Has he been riding the coattails of Shane Steichen, Kellen Moore and Vic Fangio? Perhaps. It’s hard to articulate exactly what Sirianni brings to the table on game day, other than yelling at his star wide receiver and doing ridiculous touchdown celebrations with his buddy.
Eagles Blow It! Let’s Rip Everyone. Takeaways With BLG. – The Ringer’s Philly Special
The Philadelphia Eagles will not be repeating as Super Bowl champs. They fell to the San Francisco 49ers 23-19 at home in the wild-card round of the playoffs. Sheil is joined by Brandon Lee Gowton of Bleeding Green Nation, and they give their thoughts on the game and on the season as a whole. Is this the beginning of the end for head coach Nick Sirianni? What were the key plays that ultimately cost the Eagles the game? Will AJ Brown be an Eagle next season? How did the defense perform against the high-powered 49ers offense?
Young Eagles fan rips A.J. Brown and Kevin Patullo as only a Philly kid can – SB Nation
A crushing loss, unbelievable disappointment, and one young child. ABC6 news in Philadelphia caught up with Sam Salvo, a boy whose Christmas present was tickets to the Eagles playoff game, and witnessed as everything went down in flames. Not only did Sam recognize that he would have rather gotten coal in his stocking than witness that playoff loss, but he went on to rip A.J. Brown for his dropped passes in the Eagles’ loss to the 49ers, while calling for offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo to get a new job after another horrendous job organizing the offense.
NFC Hierarchy/Obituary: Divisional Round edition – PhillyVoice
There are only four players without any postseason decorations who start for the Eagles’ offense, and two of them are DeVonta Smith and Dallas Goedert. Is this the most decorated offense in the NFL? It’s certainly the most expensive. And sure, it’s true that some – maybe all (?) – of the above players underperformed individually in 2025. Even so, it’s unfathomable that a coaching staff could make a collection of players that talented look as bad as the offense did this season. If they were only league average – which would have been an incredibly low bar – this team could have won another Super Bowl. Instead, this coaching staff took what could have been a budding dynasty and turned it into a conservative hitch route snooze fest that was difficult and boring to watch all season. Congrats to fans around the NFL (and Eagles fans, for that matter), who don’t have to tune into any more Eagles games this season. Heads have to roll.
In a way, this was a good outcome. The Eagles were clearly a flawed team throughout the season. Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman could see some stark differences in their team and the Niners on Sunday evening. One team played together and overcame tough circumstances. The other team got in their own way and looked like a bunch of individuals all trying to do their own thing. I’ll let you guess which team is which. Kyle Shanahan had answers when his team needed them. The trick play TD was a great call and even better execution. That’s what you want from a coaching staff. SF also had a great call on their final TD. They had plays ready in key situations. The Eagles did not have good answers for most of the second half. They were given some really good situations and failed to take advantage of them. That’s how you lose. That isn’t to say the loss is all on Kevin Patullo, Nick Sirianni and other coaches. Eagles players failed to make plays. AJ Brown had a bad drop and failed to make key catches on a couple of other situations. Saquon Barkley dropped an easy pass. Jalen Hurts bailed from clean pockets too often. There were too many missed blocks in the second half. Seeing Dallas Goedert get pushed back by Bryce Huff on a run play told you all you needed to know.
NFL wild-card playoffs: Big questions, judging overreactions – ESPN
There is no worse-kept secret in the NFL than the frustration internally and externally with the Eagles’ offensive coaching this season. Coordinator Kevin Patullo, promoted to replace the outgoing Kellen Moore, has been a longtime assistant for coach Nick Sirianni. But Patullo was evidently underqualified for his role. Wide receiver A.J. Brown was visibly upset to varying degrees throughout the year. Running back Saquon Barkley was not nearly as productive as he was last season. Quarterback Jalen Hurts continued to struggle with throwing to the middle of the field. There will almost certainly be a new offensive coordinator in Philadelphia next season — the fifth in five years. But perhaps the greatest question is if anything else will be new in the Eagles’ offense? Brown, who went over 20 minutes of game clock in the second half without a target and was seen arguing with Sirianni on the sideline, was a rumored target for many teams at the trade deadline. His contract represents a substantial dead cap ($66.9 million) if he’s traded, and he would likely have to collaborate with the Eagles’ front office and finagle the finances if he demands a trade. Other than Brown, tight end (and key red zone option) Dallas Goedert will be a free agent. At 31, he’ll want to cash in on what probably will be his final good years, and the Eagles don’t have a ton of cap space to pay him. But they also don’t have a good TE2 waiting in the wings. Right tackle Lane Johnson, a franchise mainstay for more than a decade, missed the end of the season because of a foot injury and will turn 36 this spring. How much longer does he want to play — and how effective would he be? It feels like a bigger change than a mere coordinator switch is on the horizon for Philadelphia’s offense as the Eagles look to get back on top of the NFC.
Some players, such as Jalen Hurts, sat by their locker stalls in silence. Others, such as A.J. Brown, were quick to dap teammates and depart. There’s no easy way for the Philadelphia Eagles to find closure to a season that ended sooner than expected, and there’s no easy answer for a team that faced the same question all season. The biggest concern for the Eagles entering the postseason was an offense susceptible to dry spells. Sure enough, they could not reach the end zone in the second half of a 23-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the wild-card round of the playoffs — a fate that would have been peevish if it were not predictable. “It’s been a common theme for us this year,” running back Saquon Barkley said. “We haven’t done a good enough job of playing complete football, putting two halves together. Sometimes, you get into this moment and (think) we’ll just figure this out. And it just caught up to us. It’s been the same thing all year.”
Nick Sirianni on Kevin Patullo: There will be time to evaluate everything – PFT
nother familiar trope of Sirianni’s postgame press conferences has been questions about offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Patullo’s work in his first season calling the plays has been heavily scrutinized and Sirianni said the team will do the same in the coming days. “There will be time to evaluate everybody’s performance,” Sirianni said, via a transcript from the team. “Right now, I feel for all our guys in the locker room, all the players, all the coaches, the front office, everybody that works so hard, the fans that come out and support us, Mr. [team owner Jeffrey] Lurie. I feel for all of us, all of them, and there’ll be time to evaluate everything coming up.”
Philadelphia Eagles’ simplified offense causes A.J. Brown situation to reach boiling point – PFF
When one of the highest-paid wide receivers in the NFL has less than 30 receiving yards in a game, you often have a problem on your hands. The 10 highest-earning receivers in 2025 combined for just 17 total games this season with fewer than 30 receiving yards. Of those 17 games, A.J. Brown accounted for five, capped off by his 25-yard display on Sunday. This is uncharted territory for a wide receiver earning $32 million per year. That same contract may now be Brown’s biggest enemy. It’s looking increasingly likely that he could demand a trade this offseason, but the Eagles would be left with a gnarly dead cap hit of $20 million, which their veteran roster will struggle to find room for. While Brown’s frustrations are clear for the world to see, any indication of how severe the relationship is from the Eagles’ perspective is still guesswork.
Kevin Patullo is as good as done. A.J. Brown’s future is murkier. But whatever happens to the offensive coordinator and the team’s top receiver, some form of significant change is coming to the Eagles offense after a season of frustration ended fittingly with another bipolar performance on Sunday. Patullo will be the easiest to cut off, not because he was solely responsible for the regression or even for the substandard play calling that doomed the Eagles in their 23-19 loss to the 49ers in the playoffs, just as it had throughout most of the 2025 regular season. Most players, including tackle Jordan Mailata, publicly supported the first-year coordinator on Sunday. They pointed the finger at themselves and their execution, or lack thereof. But the powers-that-be, as Mailata noted, can’t just wipe out the bulk of the highest-paid offense in the NFL.
The Eagles Offense Was Never Ready for a Title Defense – The Ringer
But Sirianni should be aware that there’s a gulf between his approach and that of the Eagles organization, which tends to be on the forefront of analytics and is meticulous in scouting and building the roster from the inside out. He reminds me of former MLB manager Joe Maddon, who coined the phrase “do simple better” when he took over the Cubs in 2015. Like Maddon, Sirianni is less focused on the minutiae of the offense and defense and more on vibes. And like Maddon, that vibes-first philosophy led an extremely talented team to a championship. But what happens when a coach has done simple as well as he can and his competitors are doing the complex and difficult—and more effectively because their teams are better prepared? Maddon’s Cubs slowly decayed each year after that 2016 title and eventually lost their grip on the National League. The Eagles are at risk of the same. Sunday’s loss to the 49ers might have been an upset according to the betting market and because Philadelphia won the Super Bowl so recently. But in many ways, it was entirely predictable—a fitting end to a disappointing season in which it was clear that the offensive coaching staff never had a plan to evolve when adversity hit. If Sirianni wants to build this team back into a champion, simplicity just won’t cut it anymore.
Spadaro: 6 observations from the season finale against the 49ers – PE.com
Quinyon Mitchell’s very odd career stat line. A first-team All-Pro, cornerback Quinyon Mitchell bounced back from an uncharacteristic first possession and had two interceptions, which gave the Eagles some life in the second half. Strangely, Mitchell has yet to record an interception in a regular-season game. Even more remarkable, he has four interceptions in his five career playoff games, two of them on Sunday. It’s a really odd stat, for whatever it’s worth.
3 quick takeaways from 49ers upset over Eagles: Coaching matters – Niners Nation
But, apart from the timeout usage, I thought Kyle Shanahan coached this game very well. He made a good decision in hindsight to kick the field goal in the red zone as the 49ers needed points. He stuck with what was working in the pass game and got the offense rolling with some big play calls that led to explosives. The go-ahead touchdown call was a great one to get Christian McCaffrey open. It was a similar call to the one San Francisco had a few weeks ago to get McCaffrey a touchdown, that one being in the flat. This time, the linebacker played the flat, leaving the Texas route open for the go-ahead score. More importantly, Shanahan continued to find a way to rally this team past adversity against tough opponents. That’s now seven wins in their last eight games. The 49ers outcoached the Eagles in this one, and that was a big part of the win.
Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator tracker: Names, rumors, news – Blogging The Boys
Dallas will reportedly interview former Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon as well as former Ravens defensive coordinator Zach Orr.
Washington Commanders Coaching Tracker: Former Eagles DC scheduled for interview – Hogs Haven
Former Cardinals HC/Eagles DC Jonathan Gannon scheduled for DC interview.
NY Giants wait on John Harbaugh; will interview Mike McCarthy for head coach – Big Blue View
The New York Giants are thought to be among John Harbaugh’s top two choices entering a week in which the former Baltimore Ravens head coach will likely choose which team he coaches next. Harbaugh, who coached the Ravens for 18 years before being fired last week, has drawn interest from a number of teams with — and without — coaching vacancies. He is expected to whittle the number of teams he will consider down to a handful he will accept interviews with.
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